Patrice Chapon began his training as a restaurant chef, but having always been fond of sweets he was soon drawn to the “noble” craft of pâtisserie. He trained in Deauville, followed by a stint as official ice cream maker for Buckingham Palace, where he satisfied the British royal family’s sweet tooth with his fresh fruit … Continue reading Chapon
Jean Maiffret opened his first confectioner’s shop in Cannes in 1885, selling candied fruit, chocolates and other sweets. Since then, the business has been run by successive generations of the Maiffret family. In 1959, Maiffret opened its first chocolate shop in Paris, on avenue des Champs Elysées. Today, Maiffret has two chocolate shops in Paris, … Continue reading Maiffret
Brussels-based Galler was founded in 1976 by Jean Galler, who developed a passion for chocolate at an early age while working in the confectioner’s shop founded by his grandfather in 1930. After studying with Gaston Lenôtre in Paris and training in Basel, Switzerland, Jean Galler opened his first chocolate shop in Brussels at the age … Continue reading Galler
Sylvain Mussy is a multi-talented master chocolatier who draws much of his inspiration from the flora and fauna of France to create stunning chocolate sculptures of deer, wild boars and other animals. A graduate of Ecole Grégoire Ferrandi who also studied with Pierre Hermé, Chef Mussy is also a pâtissier, confiseur and ice cream maker. … Continue reading Chocolats Mussy
L’Atelier du Chocolat’s speciality is the “bouquet de chocolat,” composed of thin, curled sheets of dark, milk or white chocolate combined with dried fruit, hazelnuts, pistachios or almonds. The Bayonne-based company has been around since 1951, when Joseph and Mageleine Andrieu opened their first pâtisserie-chocolaterie in Bayonne. Their son Serge and his wife Marie-Pierre took … Continue reading L’Atelier du Chocolat
Léonidas is a chain of Belgian chocolate shops that sell pralines, marzipan, solid chocolates and other confections. The company is named after its Greek founder, Léonidas Kestekides, a confectioner who moved from Anatolia to the United States in the late 19th century before finally settling in Belgium. He lived in Paris from 1898-1908. Brussels-based Léonidas … Continue reading Léonidas
A family-run business founded on rue du Bac in 1819, Foucher is an old-fashioned sweets shop filled with displays of hand-crafted chocolate bonbons, tablettes, mendiants and macarons. Their delicious confections are still presented in beautiful art-deco packaging dating from the 1920s. The company has two chocolate shops in Paris. The store on rue du Bac, … Continue reading Foucher